1. Covid-19 and the
idea of the University
Professor Richard Hall
@hallymk1 // rhall1@dmu.ac.uk

2. What is the purpose of the University, and of intellectual
work*, inside a collective way of living that is becoming more
efficiently unsustainable?
* undertaken by students, professional services’ staff and
academics, but also in society-at-large.

3. Institutional associations shaped in
relation to crises of economic value

4. Yet C-19 represents wider crises of
humane meaning in the University

5. C-19 and a new shock doctrine

6. • The University appears emblematic of the collapse of
the symbolic power of humans to reimagine the
world.
• The apparent inability of the University to address
crises other than in relation to value.
• Inside highly competitive environments, vulnerability
tends to shape a deeper relationship between defeat,
entrapment and depression.
Is another University possible?